[luau] Re: Redhat 9.0 and video woes

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Mon Apr 28 20:18:01 PDT 2003


Mike Harris from Red Hat said this in a direct e-mail.

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 15:47, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2003, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> >Date: 28 Apr 2003 13:53:05 -1000
> >From: Warren Togami <warren at togami.com>
> >To: shrike-list at redhat.com, mharris at redhat.com
> >Content-Type: text/plain
> >Subject: [FWD]: Redhat 9.0 and video woes
> >
> >On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:15, Maddog wrote:
> >> I am running RH 9.0 (fresh install) on my Toshiba Satellite 1415 - S173 with
> >> Invidia GeForce 420 Go graphics controller. RH 8.0 Ran fine with this setup.
> 
> No, Red Hat Linux 8.0 very definitely did not run fine on a 
> GeForce x Go as that hardware was not supported in RHL 8.0.  The 
> only way to get it to work was with their binary driver.
> 
> >> Whenever the screen blanks and I wake up the laptop the creen in divided
> >> into 2 sections Horizontally. The tool bar that resides on the bottom of the
> >> screen is in the middle of the screen. I have disabled Power Management and
> >> the screen saver to no avail The problem is alleviated when I log out of X
> >> and log back in. It really is rather irritating to have to keep doing this.
> >> Especially when working on a document.
> >
> >Anyone heard anything like this before?  If not I'll help to collect
> >debugging info from his laptop and file a Bugzilla report.
> 
> Assuming that "nv" driver is being used as shipped by us...
> 
> Try 4.3.0-6 from rawhide first before reporting a bug please.  If 
> the problem persists, feel free to report a bug, but please also 
> report it upstream in XFree86 bugzilla http://bugs.xfree86.org, 
> and provide a URL to the upstream report in our bugzilla so I can 
> track it upstream.
> 
> Generally speaking, only Nvidia can really do anything about bugs
> in either the "nv" driver, or in their binary driver, be it open
> or closed source as only they know how their hardware works.  
> Having the source is nice, but it isn't amazingly helpful in the 
> "nv" case without also having the specs.  If it's reported 
> upstream, and Mark fixes it, and I'm aware of the problem, and 
> that it's been fixed in CVS, many such problems are simple to 
> backport.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 




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